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When he is cross and fretful it is because he is unwell and he is taking the only means he has to let everybody know ke does not feel right. When baby is cross, restless and sleepless don‘t dose him with "soothing" _ stuffs, which always contain poisons. Baby‘s Own Tablets are what is needed to put the little one right. Give a ecross Laby an occasional Tablet and see how quickly he will be transformâ€" ed Into a bright, smiling, cooing, happy child. He will sleep at night, and the mother will get her rest too. Pmmewes ce ui o id 3 8 2t ie y You havre &A guarantee that _i am very corryâ€"I think it unâ€" Jjust : but it is quite impossible to say how it will end," said George Malcoins, thoe lawyer. For tho secret was known now â€" the cshadow had become a substance, the vague fancies had all assumed & form, the airy rothings had become reallties, so stern and so cruel that they had driven Darcy Lonsâ€" dale almost to despair. Mrs. Hardâ€" Sho was the third who woent home that day with a terrible sense of forebodiog. Her pretty house seemâ€" ed almost to oppress her. She wishâ€" ed that she had not burdened herâ€" sell with a nursery.governess; as ‘for the new silk dress, it no longer garyo her the least plcasure. What waks this cloud hanging over her hasâ€" banmd and her children? â€" Was it only nervous fancy, or was there ov_!l looming in tho distance ? manh‘s heir-at-lawr.“ji:fx;és “fi;'r(ll‘x;;;m. had given legal notice that he inâ€" who was soon to know ; and when sho did krow, it proved to be even greater than she feared. Mrs. Hunter‘s remark could mean nothing ; yet the heart of the lovâ€" Ing, anxious wife grew heavyy withâ€" in her. Sad news? What sad news could _ there be affecting hor or hers? Aod, if there was sad news about any one else, why could she aot have said what it was ? But Mrs. Hunter, after laughingâ€" ly parrying the remark, â€" hastily said goodâ€"morning in a very emâ€" barrassed fashion, _ and _ walked away. "You are not telling me what was in your mind when you first spoke to me," she said. "What were you thinking of, Mrs. Hunter ?" "This is a very sad affair, Mrs. Lonsdale," _ she said; and _ Kate, looking at her, asked quietly what alfair she meant. â€" She looked so entirely unconscious that the viâ€" car‘s wife was surprised, "Havre you heard no bad news of â€"ofâ€"any one?" she asked ; _ and Kate answered : _ ..NO.,' Theo Mrs. Hunter related some trifling little story ; and even as she related it Kate told herself that she was inventing it. With her honest, straightforward #eyes she looked at the vicar‘s lady. ; Z2° io first time he noticed that night a look of anxiety on his fathâ€" er‘s face, and he asked what â€" had brought it there. “‘Sha.dow.sâ€"nothlng but shadows ; fanciesâ€"troublesome fancies," . was the reply ; yet it was strange the son hu:neu away with a fecling almost of Auuchasiâ€" Nor _ was the mystery _ fegsâ€" emod when, on the day following, Mrs. Lonsdale, going on her ‘daily rourd of shopping, mst the vicar‘s wife, Mrs. Hunter, who stopped to speak to hey. D OR OO CCC PMOZZ" THUEC HHduy Ihis brave young heart fail him? What caused the strange shuddering that came over him * Why had he a keen and penetrating, aA vague, inâ€" Celinite feeling of an evil day to come ? He tried to repress it ; he coul?: understand women being nerâ€" Â¥yous, but not memn. « For the first time he noticed that night a look of anxiety on his fathâ€" er‘s face, and he asked what â€" had brought it there. ATBe o h id c a 4100 WO nat had he to ferer? * Yet what was the strango, dull pain that made 0 Ned Meneiininipmes .e . . t (Prngimat dmmendudtie"~~~ antreitid..> / he should be unhappy. _ What was thero to make him so ? Why need he Teel depressed ? Yet the very air rround him was filled with whisperâ€" ingsâ€"the night wind full of sighs. "I am growing fanciful," he said to himsel{ ; _ "and what tangible evil barve I to grasp ?" There was nothing but a cloud of fancies ; hig prospects were bright enough. He said to himself over and over again that no one was #so forâ€" tunate. Had he not a partnership ? Had he not a certainty of calling tha‘ %(‘)veliest girl in the county his wile ? mt Tnwsk Koi 4 c22" m L nge g.¢4,40_ / . "lS Deautiful ; the wind © Wras soft and fragrant, the sky calm and clear, the moon shining brightâ€" Uy. He smiled as he asked himself why :l:“ahould bo unhappy. What was Fa #a sulq c .+ EOUs Nor THE AVERAGE BaBY %0% tz KCrtianas cHAPTER VII Baby‘s any Co., l "I am sot much of a cynic, but this I must say ; that I believe our ‘n;isfol'tunou are not always disâ€" peasing to thoseo we call _ our \{riends." " No, it is no jest. Hardman will get the money i he can." _ _ _ =_ "Can it be a jost, do you think, M:}l_c'olm_â€"_a_ jost to try me ? "But these peopie have known me _so longt" _ Mr. Lonsdale could think of nothâ€" ing o strong as thatâ€"no argument was so potent. Hoe had lived amâ€" _ong them all his life. Why did they rot trust him as he trusted them ? "If any one among them had come to me and had toid ms such a thing of another, I would not have creditâ€" ed itâ€"and they are only too ready, it scems, to believe it of me. Malâ€" colm, how in Heaven‘s name, am I to go hom« and tell this to my wife? Am I to tell her that a blameless life, spent in the midst of people who have known mesince I was a child, is no shield against slander ?" "IL â€" amâ€" very sorry for you, indeed," â€" said George Malcolm ; "I can say no more. I do not believe{ {t. and. I shall stand by you ,through‘ t all,‘ The two men shook hands, but. Darcy Lonsdale‘s face wore a puzâ€" . zled, wondering look. } _But my old friends," rejoined Darcy Lonsdalsâ€""tho people 1 have lived amorg so longâ€"how can they believe such a slander ?" "Janes Hardman has talked a great deal among them," said Mr. Malâ€" colm, slowly. "He has said some hard things of you." 1 . aiiead os cuecl on lvul t . Froog J y OU. 100 " James Hardman has been bircught' G(?-IStWI:SQ‘f-g;l i'ztnr?;" ’g‘a"‘”"_ 'i’" fhe up to believe that ho would inherit wering," glue said, "wheâ€" twelvre thousand pounds, and, findâ€"| ther this woubd make any ditference ing six of it given elsewhere, he is‘ to ber or to her parentsâ€"I mean in ;)'g)triv atn}firy about it, and says somelrwuwp"fizrg‘gogg“k seoirjret Lâ€"ath. #rong itter things." F C A S« "But how is it possible that anvy I Yes, It MYiIll mako this ara Aiffnciie " But," â€" Aeclared Mr. Lonsâ€" dale, "I did _ no such thing. I swear to you I never asked, influâ€" enced, or said one word to her about it. How dare any man say such a thing of me ?" I tho rightful heir of the late Elizaâ€" beth Hardman, that he has been brought up in expoectation of reâ€" cciving the money,, and that you havre takemn an undue advantage of your position as her legal adviser and friend to induce her to leave it to you." "Then what can there be found to dispute? She intended to give me tho money, and sho did give itâ€"what is it to any one ?" eried Darcy Lonsâ€" dale. "The law deals heavily with cases like this. James Hardman wiil plead that he is heir at law, that he is "But," returned Darey Lonsdals, "Mrs. Hardmax mceant me to have the money, did che not ? That one broad fact no ono can dispute." "I believe honestly that she inâ€" tended you to have it. I know she did. Sho talked to ms for some time atout the good it would do to you and your children." MnaniGh ditWiBens Puadcct 400 BeEd, "but I ran never tell how a lawsuit may end; it might take the right turn, and again it may take a wrong one." {0 0_ 00 QLO ROCT CC PEETFORC TUCI of the mischief that was abroad. James Hardman had been in Liiâ€" fordadâ€"that he knew, and the fact had rot interested him in _ any way ; but he did not know that James Hardman had been silently destroying _ his reputation, _ had called upoa his old friends, and had, in the most subtle fashion, insinâ€" uated tha there had been a conâ€" spiracy against him, and that he Intended to dispute the will. Every one in Lilford knew, this before the least rumor of it reached Darcy Loosdale. He went at once to Mr. Malcolm; but the honest lawyer had no cheering news for Ly._ him. Eo0 e e o Orine uuuuug’ could shake his opinionâ€"that Darcy Lonsdale had taken undue advanâ€" tage of his positiona, that he had influenced _ a weakâ€"minded woman, and had persuaded her to leave him the half of her money, It was & clever ruse, advising her to send lor another lawyr; but it would not help him. Mr. Loasdale found that the ruâ€" mors about him had been growing daily, that his frieads and neighâ€" bors were all talkiog of him, while he himself had mot the faintest idea (r)f the mischiet that was abroad. tended _ to contest his _ relative‘s will on the ground of undue influâ€" ence. He maintainedâ€"and nothing CERELRE! mhaten Liro ce e Felsiiney ke his opinionâ€"that Darcy had taken undue advanâ€" his position, that he had _ _a weakâ€"minded woman, lawyer myself," he said i That was hard ; but hardest of all was tho cruel things said by tho ’ plaintifh‘s counscl. Darcy Lonsdalo | listenea to them like one in _ a i dream. He heard all kinds of 'um’..srh-nm] motives attributed _ to ‘him ; he heard himself â€" described | as a conspirator ,as one who had ’taken advantagse of his position to | Influence a weakâ€"minded woman. He | listened to words which burned him, <« branded himâ€"which almost â€" robbed him of his seliâ€"respectâ€"which so | completely bewildered him that, â€" if he had been a weaker man, he would i not have known whether he was guilty or not. The blameless life of which he was so proud, the blameless The autumn was come ; the golden glory of summer had given way to it. | The luxuriant trees made the woods & plicture. The yellow leaves lay in '(‘mnk hcavs, the corn had all been cut and carried, the frauit gathered ; ' tho gloaming was longer, and the lsumset had clouds of decper erimson, Hl L stia4 o w WBV ui The little town of Lilford had exâ€" porienced a social earthquake. â€" The great trial of Lonsdalo vs. Haradman bhad boen decided, and the verdictâ€" no one but the twelve inteliigont jurymen who gave it knew whyâ€"was against Darcy Lonsgsdale ; the will was écclared null and void, and tho whole of the property was to be given to James Hardman. u/J SWRed Untll long after midâ€" night ; they looked the evil in the face. If they went to law, and the law was against them, what then ? They wou‘d be dread{fully smbarâ€" rasgod for ready money. The nurâ€" sery governess must go, but ‘they could remain at Vale House, and the partnership ghould not be disâ€" csolved. i n Proesently Felix came in, and one glance at his gon‘s face told Darcy Lonsdale that he had heard _ the whole story. The handgome â€"young face was full of emotion. He went straight up to his father and laid lris hane« lovingly upon his shouldor, "Let ine help you, father," he said. "No man shall say one word against Let me help to light your batile, | father. I should like to take every | man who beliseves the story, or who affects to believe it, and thrash him." "My | dear Felix |~ exclaimed Mrs. Lonstiade, _ | *"So I should, madre," and tho young, handsomo face deepened with angry ecorn for everyone who should barbor an evil thought of one so beâ€" loved. The love between father and ’ hon was almost pathetic in its intenâ€" 9i. Aininsinditaleticecindatidinino ind dsc 0,02 90 14â€"A Ingly : "What will Violat say when â€" she bhoare it 2 ( ‘"Say ?" cried Felix. "She will be inâ€" Cignant. She will agree with me that any man who listens to it oughit to be shot. Why do you look C 'stmngel‘y at me, madrre 2" sity. BP ons o t W £Ce "If I did that it would look as though I feared inquiry â€" as though I knew that I had gained it by wrong means, and remorse comâ€" polled me to return it. It seems to mo now that I am compeiled, in jusâ€" tification of my own honor, to keep itâ€"Mrs. Hardman certainly meant me to have it. Then there are the chilâ€" drenâ€"]J cannot rob theny; I must not take from them what is really theirg." "But," maid his wife, "ift there whould be a trial, and it should go against you ?‘ ‘"Then I must bear it like a man, Kate. I have had many biessingsâ€" W it pleuses Heaven to send me a reverse i must not complain.‘ But, for all that, she knew that his heart was sore and heavy, and | that he was disturbed by a hundred doubts and fears. She soothed hlm,‘ comforted him, and did her best toJ encourage him; but she could not peorsuade him to forget his trouble for a momentâ€"it was always in his thoughts, â€" ; ; 1 T Wipiheninediitetincts n w ce ictatninint A "Give the money _ back again, Darey," said his wife. "If I were in your pace I would not 'touch' one shilling of it." "I have heard all about it, Darcy," said his wife. _ "Nover xindâ€"no one can injure you. You are innocent, honest, and honorable. Never mind what any one saysâ€"Heaven knows the truth, and I love you all the more that you bear this blame so woll." Darcy Lonsdale was relieved to find his wife sq cheerful, and they sat dowr to discuss their difficulty 66 rrll l ax‘_ : He dreaded going homeâ€"for the lirst time in his life he disliked passing through the streets of his native town, for the first time he shrunk from the glances and words of his old comrades. "Heaven help Kate!" he said to himself. "How, can I tell her?" But Kate knew alreadyâ€"such news _tmyels fast. ‘It was niy " whanine: resently Mrs. LonsGals said mialr .2pg _ _ 2C 2200000 12010, ddd the trial will come on about the end of September. You must prepare your defence and look up your witnesses." *If my whole life does not witness for me," said Darcy Lonsdale, with quilet dignity, "then the words of no man can benefit me." _i would no: take it uniess I thought it were really mineâ€"I would refuse to touch it ; but I cannot do that, for I am sure my old friend left it to me for the children. I must be just to them. Great Heaven ! I have kept a blameless name all my life only to meet with this fateâ€" to see my old friends point to me as a man who would cheat his client : I wish I had been dead before I had known this! ‘Tell me what Hardman is going to do." " He has placed the whole matter h'z‘ the hands of a London firm, and The AulaÂ¥ souah o1c l s iT ig CHAPTER VIII Minnontine amusscaa s make this or}ef(fi t fm:evnc:,», ht , muUsâ€" The campaign speech that alway meets with approval is "Wanat wi]I you have, gents?" ; o i One other fact deserves to be takâ€" en into account. In Londo® ,{hirteen murderers were tried by the sourts, nine being «entenced to ‘be Langed and four being judged insane. In Chicago there was only one hangâ€" ing â€"that of the brute Thoms â€" whilo most of the sentences were ridiculousl y ligkt.â€"Chicago Horald. In other words, with a population and area three and a balf times as largo as Chicago‘s, the London force Lad five and a third times as man‘y ofticers, who â€"were paid two and a quarter times as muck, and who made one and threeâ€"fifths times as many, arrosts. force numbered 2,732 officers and men, with a pay roil of $3,174,213. The arrests numbered 70,314, Tho London metropolitan force is materially larger in proportion to population and territory than ‘the Clicago force. It has 14,476 officers and men, and its annual pay rolls about $7,000,000. Tho total number of arrests of all kinds made by it in 1902 was 112,205. The Chicago mme 1 the water into oxygen and hydrogen on th T deubed:;t'l'tn‘eeec”l}l]“;le C?l:?cr:ge'cl; ,Kases. Prof. I{uthgflord and H. T. asey Inerads in s liti t ly| | Barnes have recently shown that cases include in addllt on l‘lno 22”["more es iwoflld. sthoek Wast P etmig the (ruo Aatube x vrmes l'nl-l ing effect is not due to the radium corning the true na.turgto'rh WC:;ck‘at a1. bus 2o "aooe on Pit on Co‘thelm J ppronare I if mardors TabAtion _ which it produces from aty coroner‘s total of lpurde{::"se".,, in Novembert 1962 " Mesers for 1902 is only| 99. Moreover IFatherford _ and S oudy comtingoy Fests cobld ts made, ayo in tG ar.ifmm their experiments on the emâ€" hoss y _ be‘ ada, ud S some o [anations from radium and thorium thoso lnt ‘fl"'dlleshetha"?flfg m:; that they are "inert gases, mmlo; To have in with: the poics.""" " t ture, to the members o not have lain with the police. |gous to nature, to men s It would not bo fair to draw conâ€" ‘ radium is cévntinuully lo clusions as to the efficiency, of our|and if the radium salt b police force from these figures alone. | in water some of this en The London murders are probably all pended in decomposing a cases of deliberate crimeâ€" murder lthe water into oxygen an in +hia finct Anmman PB es C prao nc OE in sn ies Oe un i s e e oCC & madvrues "Z o oo ies O o o OO ceUCCTHIme. ; that from radium saits® lasted a Among the remaining 106 cases conâ€" | month. It, too, was condensible when yvictions were secured in 34, while cooled ; it was luminous, and imâ€" in 53 cases arrests wore made which parted temporary luminously in obâ€" either did not, or have not yet, reâ€" jects which it touched ("excited acâ€" sulted in convictions. In 19 cases no | tivity"). ; arrests were made. These last are! The fact imat & radium salt is alâ€" Chicago‘s "undiscovered crimes" for ; ways hotter than its surroundines. _ _ The Metropolitan police district is, t fnreg;asnf:t rouglhly epeaking, turee and a half | inat it th times as large as the City of Chiâ€" ‘by passing cago, both in area and in populaâ€"| with liqude tion. Yet, in the City; of Chicu,go“he active during the same period there were| cold tube. 128 lomicides reported to the Do-iactive pot lico. Among these cases, according ) and with to the recorits kept at detecti.ve,They also headquarters, there four in which / anation," the killing was done by officers in / salts of r tho performance of their duty, and ‘ more pern eighteen in which the murderers| While the committed suicide, or were them-‘ lum salts " selves killed at the time of the crime. j that from Among the remaining 106 cases conâ€" | month. It, yvictions were secured in 34, while cooled ; it in 53 cases arrests were made which parted ten Homicides in Lendon and Chicagoâ€" EfMficiency of Police Protection,. In the Metropolitan police district of London, which covers an area of 638 equaro miles, and contains aA population of 6,500,000, there were committed last year just twenty murders. In four cases the murdersâ€" erse committed suicide. In ail the others arregts were made by) the polâ€" lice. There was no undiscovered crimeâ€"to use the Briush expressionâ€" during the year. He took up the letter with a smile and read it. It was not from Violet, but from her father, Francis Haye, saying _ that the marriago must be deferred for at least a year, as he was quite sure that under the circumstances Felix could cot hamper himsel{ with a wife. ’ That evening Feilix came home late from his office ; he was tired, owing to the hard work and illâ€"fortune of the day. He fought nobly with misâ€" fortune ,but he fought in vain. His kind face brightened when he saw a letter for him. It must be from Violet, Who would write to him except Vioâ€" let ? And despite all his sorrows his heart glowed as he thought of her, his beautiful love. Oh, to escape, If | only for one hour, and sun himself| in the light of her presence! He saw her so seldom now. He was hard at| work during the day, and the nights were too cold for walks and rambles. He occasionally went over to Thol Limes, but the welcoms that he reâ€" . ceived there was not of the warmest, I and he could not seo Violet alone.‘ It was an evening in October, dark and chill. For the first time the inâ€" valid had come down stairs, and the weight of anxiety upon him was like a weight of lead. There were days of strict economy in Vale House. There was no tempting fruit for the feeble appetlite, _ no generous wine to give strength to tho fecble frame. The best medicine that the invalid had were the cheering, kindly words of his wife, the love of his son. _ It was a dreary time. The business lell away; the toenspeople said to each other wi,th a grave shake of the head, that they could not trast a man of whom such things had been saidâ€"that they could not leave their interests, as before, in his hands. Onoe after another the old names disappeared from his books. Men he had known ali his simple life [ought shy of himâ€"avoided him, and tho dreary time he passed on. Felix worked hard, but it was like rowing against an angry current. Tkere were some gleams of com{ort ; one of them neither father or son ever forgot. That his old friends should have believed this of him, pained the brave, tonest heart. He nad a long illness, [rom which it was ifcared at first that he would never recover. "I shall never hold up my head again,‘ said Darcy Lonsdale, with a deep sob, "I shaill never lock my [e‘lowâ€"men in the face." Those were dréary days in Vale House. j He called few witnesses. He might have had a far better defence than he did, but that he trusted so enâ€" tirely to the notion that his own innocence must be patent to all men. The verdict was against himâ€"unjustâ€" ly so, some said, for the judge had Eumimed up unfavorably for himâ€"and Darcy Lonsdale went home crushed and heartâ€"broken. name which he valued above all other blessings, were bespattered. As he listened to the crucel words, which fell like molten lead on his heart and home, he could have cried aloud that it was all false. He had lived in Lilford both as boy and man, and all his old friends knew that he was incapable of doing any creature a wrong or an injury. ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO MURDER STATISTICS. (To be Continued.) J â€" We can hbelp ourselves by an anaâ€" ' logy. Yery complicated compounds of {carbon and hydrogen can be proâ€" | duced; one â€"Containing thirty atoms | of carbon and ‘sixtyâ€"two atoms of \hydrogen is knowu. But one of, say L atoms of carben and 402 of hyâ€" drd> would certsinly fall to bits; it w fald split up angxlglve out heat. The sition appbars reasonable that as there is t)limit to the possiple number of atoms in such compounds _(for the molecules ~or ‘from their expt*rlments’ on the emâ€" [anations from radium and thorium ’that they are "inert gases, analoâ€" gous to nature, to the members of the argon family"; and also they ; threw out the surmise, "whether the presence of helium in minerals and its invariable assocdation with uranâ€" ium and therum may not be connectâ€" ed _ with the radioâ€"activity." _ Now, I had tne good fortune to disâ€" cover helium in 1895 ; it is one of the _Argon gases, and is contained in cerâ€"; tain mnerals; and when Mr. Soddy, came to work with me in the early . summer of the year, we tested the truth of this surmise, and we were rewarded with success. The fresh emanation from _ radium does not show the spectrum of helium; but as it "decays," helium is produced in minute but ever increasing quanâ€" tity. 1g3 o 5 & ’ | The fact imat & radium salt is alâ€" ways hotter than its surroundings, ’dlscovered by the Curies, implies that radium is continually losing energy, | and if the radium salt be dissolved | in vzujter some of this energy is exâ€" l While these researches wore in progress M. Curie and Dr. Schmidt discovered imultaneously that anâ€" _other element, thorium, of which [the atomic weight is 232, also posâ€" sesses the pawer of discharging an electroscope; and, moreover, that if air be led over saits of thorium, the air requires and attains for a short time discharging power. _"The subject was taken up by Prof. Rutherford, of Montreal, and by Mr. Frederick Soddy, who then worked in his laboratory, and they found that if the "active" air were cooled by passing it through a tube cooled with liquid air, it lost its "activity," the active portion remaining in the cold tube. (On warming the tube the active portion was carried forward, and with it the discharging power. They also found that a similar "emâ€" anation," or gas, was evolved from salts of radium, possessing a much more permanent discharging power, While the "emanation" from thorâ€" lum salts "deeayed" in a few minutes, l This discovery has not been disâ€" proved ; but it appears that the the amount of polonium obtainable ’is exceedingly small and diflicult to separate from bismuth. Subsequentâ€" ]quontly Mme. Curie discovered anâ€" ‘other element of the barium group, | posgessing enormous powers of disâ€" | charge, and to this clement, which occurs in rclatively greater amount, | she gave the name "radium." It is an undoubted clement in the sense in which that term is generâ€" ally used ; its salts resemble closely those of barium, and its spectrum has been observed by Mr. Demarâ€" cay, by Prof. Runge and by Sir Wilâ€" liam Crooks, Its atomic weight has been determined by Mme. Curie ar 225: the atomic weight of m‘nniuml 151 the highest knownâ€"240; â€" and POVE Senoty 27 m is the highest knownâ€"240; _ and there is some evidence from its Epecâ€" trum that radium may have even a higher atomic weightâ€"over 250â€"â€"and that the sample analyzed by Mme. Curie may not have been quite free from barium, of which the atomiec wgl-gh_t is only 137. PCOUnved for by the uranium oxide | seeds in this mway. As a matter of. in the mineral ; she therefore separâ€"| Jact, however, he seldom gets seed ated the mineral into its groups of| perfectly free from weed seeds of. constituents â€" uranium, iron, jJead,| some kind occagionally â€" these aro_ barium, bismuth, etc. (for the mineral! not particularly injurious, but not contains all these and many other| {requently they are most undesir«! elements), and tested each group as} able, and, being introduced unconâ€", to its power of discharge. At Tirst she‘ sciously, gain a strong foothold: thought she had traced the dischargâ€"| before their presence is suspected,‘ ing power to the bismuth group, and ; In this connection some particulare > attributed it to an clement which she' of ‘the anaiysis of seeds {from the . named "polonium," after her native Department of Agriculture at Otta« country. lwa should be o1 interest, as they This discovery has not been disâ€" show to what extent these condjâ€"=| proved ; but it appears that thel tions prevail. &‘ Che SMAWNWE nÂ¥ cseriiranit ie mm * n B th w ue en oo MA Thies effect of discharging _ was found to be produced when a salt or mineral containing uranium _ was placed inside the box. Mme. Curlec, a Poligh lady, living in Paris, noticed that the rate at which the gold leaves fell together was more rapid with certain uranium minerals (speci« mens of pitchâ€"blende) than could be accounted for by the uranium oxide in the mineral ; she therefore separâ€" ated the mineral into its groups of constituents â€" uranium, iron, jlead, barium, bismuth, etc. (for the mineral contains all these and many other elements), and tested each group as to its power of discharge. At Tirst she thought she had traced the dischargâ€" in‘g power }o the bismuth group, and If a plece of sealingâ€"wax is rubbed, eo as to excite it electrically, and if the projecting end of the wire is touched with theâ€"rubbed sealingâ€"wax, a emall charge of electricity is given to the wire, and through it to the gold leaves, so that they repel each other, and fly apart, making a figure like pn inverted V (A). If the wire be touched with the finger the electric charge is conducted away through the body, and the leaves swing back into their original position. s of atoms fall apirt by their M. Heari becquerel, prompted by a hint from the celebrated mathema t« clan, M. Poincare, discovered that the compounds of uranium, a somewhat rare metal, as well as the metal itâ€" self, were capable of impressing â€" a photographic plate wrapped us in black paper, or ‘otherwise protected from light. It was also found that such salts, placed near a charged electroscope, discharged it, the gold leaves falling together. An electroâ€". ecope, 1t may be explained, is a metal box with glass sides ; through a hole< in ‘the Jid a wire passes, the stopper which closes the hole and supports the wire bheing made of sulphur, or sealingâ€"wax, or some other material| which dees not conduct electricity.’ From the end of the wire are euspendâ€" | ed two pleces of gold leaf, hanging | down so as to be visible through the‘ glass sides of the box. TCOJ PEiwon mo%w K ls again told, for it forms #lt chapter in a volume of which m y have still to be written. The stdry of the disco ium is fu$ of interest. ane bap 3 % portion of ol radâ€" readers to think your husband was treating you ecrselly ?" _ "It was on CLristmas, two years ago." f iÂ¥ "What was the nature of the trouble 2" "I Lad tought his mother a pocket= book for a present." Â¥ i. Af UJYN?'I .' "Well, e got mad and talked awâ€" fully, hecause lbe gave my mother a pola watcl." ~ "Because Lbe gavre it, you say ?" ; "Well, of course I picked it out, but I let them «en him the bill ang ma g@#ve him all the credit for It* our seeds may be low, the highest grades are always offored for sale, and this quality is in the end the most profitable. W. A. Clemons, Pubâ€" lication Clerk. ‘ , t Another Mean Man Exposed. "Now," eaid the lawyer for the crossâ€"petitioner, as he took the fair witness in hand, "I want you to tell El.o court just when you first began _A suck impurities as light seeds, clLalf, or weed eeeds cither larger or smaller tlan the bulk o{f the samâ€" plo. Amall numbers of cockle, black medick, and false jlax still reâ€" mained in the alsike, and of foxtail and ribgrass in tho red clover. The germination was â€" uniformly over ninety per cont. The average quality was therefore considerably| . better than that of thoe eeeds ret&led in our own markete. It skould always bo remembered, Lowerer, by buyers, that, while the average quality of Several samples of exported Care adian alsike and red clover were #" : tained from Englisl seed merchan‘* All theso showed a uniform quality, none of them free from weed seeds but lad apparenitly bees well cleans ed, as thoere was a notable absence of 700 seed per pound, and others romewlLat less. There is no proâ€" ‘bability of Canada ever Laving t import seed from Clili, but as botK} countries Lare a common market for their surplus supply, the presence G this impurity in the Chilian seek slould afford the Canadian product a considerable advantage. Were it not for this cirecumstance the Chiliarnt red clover seed would prove a danâ€" gerous competitor, as it is well cofâ€" ored, pump, and of Ligh vitality, ang& with few other objectionable imâ€" purities.. m y t e Ei ie C e ooo sls of several samples obtained lrus Clili, show that dodder is a _ ver common impirity in seed from tl..g country, the sample baving upward# The primary cause for this preâ€"‘ vailling condition is no doubt tlep growtL of woeds with the crop forn seed, and the tendency o farmers to buy improperily cleaned seeds beâ€" cause they are cheaper than, and to to regard cleap seed as o{l inferion quality, and on tlis account 10 avoid buyingz it. i ‘ Dodder was present in twelve sams ples of red clover at an average rate of 418 seeds per pound ; this is coss s@iderably more than was the case & year ago, and was no doubt due to more seed being imported (from the soutt where this parasite thrives gmct; be'tusx"tu“ here. The analye a casual examiner, equally as good as dearer grades. It is usually safe _ _Of over two hundred sampleg of| timothy pnalyzed during 1903, only; four lhuad no weed seeas in them ;‘ in the others over thirty dil'lerent. kinds of weed seeds were represenm "=, ed. _ Of these, Conquefoil, Pepper=‘ grass, Sheep Sorrel, Ribgrass, Falso Flax, Lamb‘s Quarters, Canada Thlh‘ tle and White Cockle â€" were most commonly present, often at tha‘" rate of several thousand per ponndf In Red Clover and Alsike, of e of which there were several hundred samples analyzed, there were upâ€" wards of forty species of weed seeds, those being commonest whose size approximated that of the cloy= er seed. Thus in lBed Clover were commonly found Curled Dock, Canâ€" ada Thistle, White Cockle, and Ribâ€" grass; while in Alsike, False Flax,‘ White Cockle, Sheep sorret, Ciogque= {oll and Black Medick were prevas ent. the seed grain trade. Almost everyi jJarmer purchases yearly _ seed od grain or grasses and clovers, wi t‘ little thought of introducing weed The Chief Weeds Found in Clover and Timothy. Department of Agriculture, 4 Commissioner‘s Branch, The spread of noxious weeds can be attricuted to no singleo cause, They seem to be naturailly adaptâ€" ed ‘to rapid spreading, and begides there are various natural and artiâ€" ficial agencies which aid in ther ‘ dissemination. _ Not the least imâ€" p:)rta.nt among these agencies is\ P NC id stt cA 0 dnc P c s < c : Fl ing, it is much more likely that it is being converted into silver and 3 copper than that it is being formâ€"‘ ed from them. At this stage, how»=‘ eveor, sgeculutlon is futile. It is cerâ€"] tain that further experiment will | lead to more positive knowledge of | the nature of the elemef®*s, and of . the transformation which at least rome of them are undergoing.â€"Wilâ€" liam Ramsay, in London Mail. ® cept in one case; one of the proâ€" ducts of the decomposition of the emanation from radium is helium. Can the process be reversed ? NS one knows. But as gold is an element of high atomic weight, it may be ‘confl:ien.tly stated that if it is changâ€" T Eaoalty ALALOL _11 11 €8 Cnang hose elements with high atomic weights such as thorium, uranium and radium, are Apparently ‘decomâ€"= posing into elements with low atomic weight ; in doing so they give off keat, and also possoss the curious property of radioâ€"activity. What these elements are is unknown, exâ€" isA tut s M sn lt s 2214 MB . .. s Cro CB limit to the atomic weight of an element. 'I:hg-e elements with high atomie t:wn weight), so there may be & Hiuuts ~a ui 3 I adium. NOXIOUS WEEDS.